Elderly care providers around the world have been challenged by the consequences of changing demographics—causing a glaring gap in available and qualified workers. The OECD reports that employers in the long-term care sector will need an additional 13.5 million workers by 2040 to sustain the current care-worker-to-elderly-people ratio. While there is no simple solution to closing the gap, adopting responsible labor migration policies and practices offers a tremendous opportunity to fill more vacancies with high-quality workers from abroad.
Labor Mobility Partnerships (LaMP) is a nonprofit organization that helps improve existing pathways, and open new ones, for foreign-born workers to work in the aging services sector. To build quality labor mobility pathways, a collaboration with the Global Aging Network has launched to gather information about the experience of foreign-born workers currently employed by Global Ageing Network members.
Please support this effort by distributing the brief anonymous survey among your current foreign-born employees who do not hold citizenship of the country where they currently reside. The survey is available in all world languages and focuses on the immigrant workers’ experience at three stages: pre-arrival, hiring processes, and experience in your country. The survey results will contribute to the care sector’s efforts to address their expanding labor shortages.
Share this article and the survey link above with your employees who don’t hold the citizenship of your country. We do not see the names of individuals, only the countries; the survey is anonymous. If your employees prefer using WhatsApp, please provide us with their phone numbers and we will distribute the survey via the app.
By spending 10-15 minutes answering the survey, your employees will help inform viable solutions that could lead to unlocking opportunities for possibly hundreds of thousands of skilled workers to come help fill the increasing labor shortages in the sector, improve the quality of the current labor mobility pathways, and ultimately improve the quality of care and supports provided to residents and clients
For more information, reach out to Zuzana Cepla (zcepla@lampforum.org), LaMP Manager, or Shannon Davis (sdavis@globalageing.org), Global Ageing Network Program Director.
